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bobcdy · 09-08-2011, 05:51 PM

An update with my private use area glyphs in ADE: I've tried everything I can think of to make them show in ADE, and found only that they show as ? in ADE, and as glyphs in preview ADE but the characters are incorrect - for my pua glyphs in preview ADE they show a either the AE lig. or as the capital A with various diacritic marks (??) Thus there is a bug of some sort somewhere that confuses the unicode assignment of the pua glyphs (but I'm sure that the glyphs are properly assigned to correct pua values such as E000, E001, etc.) As an experiment I reassigned one glyph to a far-out pua value U+F000 that the preview ADE showed that as a box with an x through it.

I'm adding this last to my observations some time after I wrote the above: I found the problem, I think, but I have no way to solve it. I tried the font on another computer - a quad core 3gh win7 system, and had no problem with the pua glyphs without resorting to the preview ADE. Consequently the fault resides in my system itself. I'll try a Win XP restore to see if that helps my problem.

This last is being written in the early morning of the day after I wrote the above paragraph. After I did a disk image save for my C drive, I replaced it with one created 10 days ago. This still didn't solve the problem. But when I deleted ADE, preview ADE, and Sigil, rebooted and reinstalled new downloads, all worked fine. I can see the pua glyphs with ADE, and they even show correctly in Book View of Sigil v. 0.4.2!

Bob

09-08-2011, 05:51 PM	#7
bobcdy Fanatic Posts: 527 Karma: 1048576 Join Date: May 2009 Device: bebook; prs-950; nook simple touch; HTC Jetstream tablet	An update with my private use area glyphs in ADE: I've tried everything I can think of to make them show in ADE, and found only that they show as ? in ADE, and as glyphs in preview ADE but the characters are incorrect - for my pua glyphs in preview ADE they show a either the AE lig. or as the capital A with various diacritic marks (??) Thus there is a bug of some sort somewhere that confuses the unicode assignment of the pua glyphs (but I'm sure that the glyphs are properly assigned to correct pua values such as E000, E001, etc.) As an experiment I reassigned one glyph to a far-out pua value U+F000 that the preview ADE showed that as a box with an x through it. I'm adding this last to my observations some time after I wrote the above: I found the problem, I think, but I have no way to solve it. I tried the font on another computer - a quad core 3gh win7 system, and had no problem with the pua glyphs without resorting to the preview ADE. Consequently the fault resides in my system itself. I'll try a Win XP restore to see if that helps my problem. This last is being written in the early morning of the day after I wrote the above paragraph. After I did a disk image save for my C drive, I replaced it with one created 10 days ago. This still didn't solve the problem. But when I deleted ADE, preview ADE, and Sigil, rebooted and reinstalled new downloads, all worked fine. I can see the pua glyphs with ADE, and they even show correctly in Book View of Sigil v. 0.4.2! Bob Last edited by bobcdy; 09-10-2011 at 04:15 PM.